SFPD seeks driver of car in crash at Twin Peaks Reservoir

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Published 4:14 pm, Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Photo: Mathew Sumner, Special To The Chronicle

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A fire department diver enter the Twin Peaks Reservoir in search of the driver of a vehicle that crashed after it went off the roadway on Twin Peaks Blvd. early Tuesday morning Oct. 8, 2013, in San Francisco.

A fire department diver enter the Twin Peaks Reservoir in search of the driver of a vehicle that crashed after it went off the roadway on Twin Peaks Blvd. early Tuesday morning Oct. 8, 2013, in San Francisco.

Photo: Mathew Sumner, Special To The Chronicle

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Police investigate the damaged railing at the Twin Peaks Reservoir where a sports car landed after it crashed through the fence on Twin Peaks Blvd. early Tuesday morning Oct. 8, 2013, in San Francisco.

Police investigate the damaged railing at the Twin Peaks Reservoir where a sports car landed after it crashed through the fence on Twin Peaks Blvd. early Tuesday morning Oct. 8, 2013, in San Francisco.

Photo: Mathew Sumner, Special To The Chronicle

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Police investigate a vehicle which a driver crashed at the Twin Peaks Reservoir after it went off the roadway on Twin Peaks Blvd. early Tuesday morning Oct. 8, 2013, in San Francisco.

Police investigate a vehicle which a driver crashed at the Twin Peaks Reservoir after it went off the roadway on Twin Peaks Blvd. early Tuesday morning Oct. 8, 2013, in San Francisco.

Photo: Mathew Sumner, Special To The Chronicle

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Rescue crews work at the Twin Peaks Reservoir where a sports car landed after it crashed through the fence on Twin Peaks Blvd. early Tuesday morning Oct. 8, 2013, in San Francisco.

Rescue crews work at the Twin Peaks Reservoir where a sports car landed after it crashed through the fence on Twin Peaks Blvd. early Tuesday morning Oct. 8, 2013, in San Francisco.

Photo: Mathew Sumner, Special To The Chronicle

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Police search for the driver of a sports car that crashed at the Twin Peaks Reservoir after it crashed through the fence on Twin Peaks Blvd. early Tuesday morning Oct. 8, 2013, in San Francisco.

Police search for the driver of a sports car that crashed at the Twin Peaks Reservoir after it crashed through the fence on Twin Peaks Blvd. early Tuesday morning Oct. 8, 2013, in San Francisco.

Photo: Mathew Sumner, Special To The Chronicle

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A heavy rescue crew arrives at the Twin Peaks Reservoir where a sports car landed after it crashed through the fence on Twin Peaks Blvd. early Tuesday morning Oct. 8, 2013, in San Francisco.

A heavy rescue crew arrives at the Twin Peaks Reservoir where a sports car landed after it crashed through the fence on Twin Peaks Blvd. early Tuesday morning Oct. 8, 2013, in San Francisco.

Photo: Mathew Sumner, Special To The Chronicle

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A police car shines its light where a sports car crashed through the fence on Twin Peaks Blvd. early Tuesday morning Oct. 8, 2013, in San Francisco.

A police car shines its light where a sports car crashed through the fence on Twin Peaks Blvd. early Tuesday morning Oct. 8, 2013, in San Francisco.

Photo: Mathew Sumner, Special To The Chronicle

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Rescue crews work at the Twin Peaks Reservoir where a sports car landed after it crashed through the fence on Twin Peaks Blvd. early Tuesday morning Oct. 8, 2013, in San Francisco.

Rescue crews work at the Twin Peaks Reservoir where a sports car landed after it crashed through the fence on Twin Peaks Blvd. early Tuesday morning Oct. 8, 2013, in San Francisco.

Photo: Mathew Sumner, Special To The Chronicle

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SFPD seeks driver of car in crash at Twin Peaks Reservoir

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San Francisco police are trying to get in touch with the registered owner of a car that was found engulfed in flames next to the Twin Peaks Reservoir early Tuesday morning, a police spokesman said.

A black, two-door BMW apparently went off an embankment on a sharp turn near the Twin Peaks lookout point around 4 a.m. and landed on a service road near the reservoir, where it burst into flames, San Francisco police spokesman Officer Gordon Shyy said.

Police conducted an extensive search of the area, including sending a dive team into the reservoir to check for anyone who was possibly ejected from the car, but did not find anyone, Shyy said.

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Investigators found out around 10:30 a.m. that the registered owner of the car was alive and had made contact with his family, according to Shyy.

"We now just want to be able to talk to him and see what happened," Shyy said.

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